Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for generalized causal inference / by Shadish, William R.

Table of Contents: “…Experiments and generalized causal inference -- Statistical conclusion validity and internal validity -- Construct validity and external validity -- Quasi-experimental designs that either lack a control group or lack pretest observations on the outcome -- Quasi-experimental designs that use both control groups and pretests -- Quasi-experiments: interrupted time-series designs -- Regression discontinuity designs -- Randomized experiments: rationale, designs, and conditions conducive to doing them -- Practical problems 1: Ethics, participant recruitment, and random assignment -- Practical problems 2: Treatment implementation and attrition -- Generalized causal inference: a grounded theory -- Generalized causal inference: methods for single studies -- Generalized causal inference: methods for multiple studies -- A critical assessment of our assumptions.…”


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Experimentation works : the surprising power of business experiments / by Thomke, Stefan H.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Endorsements -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Ch. 1: Why Experimentation Works -- Ch. 2: What Makes a Good Business Experiment -- Ch. 3: How to Experiment Online -- Ch. 4: Can Your Culture Handle Large-Scale Experimentation? …”
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Experimental Erosion Theory and Practice of Soil Conservation Experiments / by Xu, Xiangzhou, Zhu, Tongxin, Zhang, Hongwu, Gao, Lu

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Author resumes -- Contents -- Introduction -- THEORIES AND METHODS FOR SOIL CONSERVATION EXPERIMENTS -- Similarity of model experiments -- A conventional experimental technique: rainfall simulation -- An innovative measurement instrument: topography meter -- How to conduct an experiment in the field: a portable laboratory -- SOIL CONSERVATION EXPERIMENTS: CASE STUDIES ON THE LOESS PLATEAU, CHINA -- A close look of the gravity erosion on the Loess Plateau of China -- Effects of conservation practices on soil, water, and nutrients -- Sediment-storage effects of check-dam system in the small watershed -- Gravity erosions on the loess gully bank: avalanche, landslide, or mudslide -- A sensitivity analysis on the gravity erosion on the steep loess slope -- Detecting fingerprints of gravity erosion drivers: a laboratory experiment -- Effects of gravity erosion on particle size distribution of suspended sediment -- Tunnel flow and erosion processes in an experimental catchment -- Additional material.…”
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Experimental selves : person and experience in early modern Europe / by Braider, Christopher, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Person, Experiment, and the World They Made; Notes; Works Cited; Index.…”
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Foundations of experimental physics / by Mahamuni, Shailaja, Sidhaye, Deepti, Kulkarni, Sulabha

Subjects: “…Physics Experiments. sh 85101657…”
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An introduction to experimental physics / by Cooke, Colin

Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 What experimental science is about -- chapter 2 Writing about experiments -- chapter 3 Design of experiments -- chapter 4 Measuring the experimental variables -- chapter 5 Analysis of data -- chapter 6 Models -- chapter 1 APPENDIX 1 Uncertainty on the line of least squares fit -- chapter 2 APPENDIX 2 Coefficient of linear correlation r -- chapter 3 APPENDIX 3 Books you might enjoy reading -- chapter 4 APPENDIX 4 Programs discussed in text.…”
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Experimental Dining : Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants. by Geary, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Experimental Dining -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Restaurants: elBulli, The Fat Duck, Noma and Alinea -- Philosophical Approach -- Food, Art and Performance -- Arguments and Structure of the Book -- 1. …”
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Experimental Dining Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants. by Geary, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Experimental Dining -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Restaurants: elBulli, The Fat Duck, Noma and Alinea -- Philosophical Approach -- Food, Art and Performance -- Arguments and Structure of the Book -- 1. …”
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Experimental research methods. Experimental design

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The Principles of Experimental Research. by Srinagesh, K.

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The principles of experimental research by Srinagesh, K.

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Methods of experimental physics / by Pergament, M. I.

Table of Contents: “…Photographic methods of experimental research and high-speed photography -- chapter 5. …”
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The experimental side of modeling /

Table of Contents: “…Will Your Policy Work? Experiments versus Models; 6. Causal Content and Global Laws: Grounding Modality in Experimental Practice; 7. …”
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Experimental research methods. Field experiments

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The philosophy of scientific experimentation /

Table of Contents: “…Toward a more developed philosophy of scientific experimentation / Hans Radder -- The materiality of instruments in a metaphysics for experiments / Rom Harré -- Thing knowledge: outline of a materialist theory of knowledge / Davis Baird -- Physics, experiments, and the concept of nature / Peter Kroes -- Experimentation, causal inference, and instrumental realism / Jim Woodward -- Technology as basis and object of experimental practices / Rainer Lange -- Theory-ladenness and scientific instruments in experimentation / Michael Heidelberger -- Technology and theory in experimental science / Hans Radder -- The idols of experiment: transcending the "etc. list" / Giora Hon -- Models, simulation, and "computer experiments" / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Experiments without material intervention: model experiments, virtual experiments, and virtually experiments / Mary S. …”
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Experimental research methods. Natural experiments

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Introduction to engineering experimentation / by Wheeler, Anthony J.

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Experimental research methods. Laboratory experiments

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Experimental economics : rethinking the rules /

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Experimental Research Methods /

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